Re: Proposal to automatically make the owner/user of an accepted socket the current process

But I think I’m drifting away partially after kre@ explanation.

> On 6 Jun 2025, at 12:22 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 5, 2025, at 11:58 PM, Emmanuel Nyarko <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> So what I want to get clear is that, if the root accepts a connection and gives that new(connect) socket to a less-privileged process, is it desirable that the new socket, given to the less-privileged process, still maintain a root so_cred? Even if I don’t do it as default and make it opt-in as we’ve agreed, do you consider the change a plausible one ?
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> Yes, I think that is perfectly reasonable.  But since it is a major behavioral change that could break existing software, the behavior should be opt-in.
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> -- thorpej
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